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DBMS > GridGain vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Neo4j vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Neo4j vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Event Store
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
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Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score44.46
Rank#23  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.gridgain.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storeneo4j.comwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storeneo4j.com/­docsdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.IBMNeo4j, Inc.PerconaVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20072017200720152011
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.12.05.19, April 20243.4.10-2.10, November 20177.x
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGPL Version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC and C++Java, ScalaC++C#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesschema-free and schema-optionalschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimenonono
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
proprietary protocol using JSON.Net
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yesyes infoUser defined Procedures and FunctionsJavaScriptno
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)noyes infovia event handlernoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyes using Neo4j FabricShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)Active-active shard replicationCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlySource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infovia In-Memory Engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)Access rights for users and rolesBased on Windows Authentication
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GridGainIBM Db2 Event StoreNeo4jPercona Server for MongoDBVelocityDB
Specific characteristicsNeo4j delivers graph technology that has been battle tested for performance and scale...
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Competitive advantagesNeo4j is the market leader, graph database category creator, and the most widely...
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Typical application scenariosReal-Time Recommendations Master Data Management Identity and Access Management Network...
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Key customersOver 800 commercial customers and over 4300 startups use Neo4j. Flagship customers...
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Market metricsNeo4j boasts the world's largest graph database ecosystem with more than 140 million...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGPL v3 license that can be used all the places where you might use MySQL. Neo4j Commercial...
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